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May 23, 2011 at 2:41 pm in reply to: BOEING 747 CLASSIC (PART 1 of 2) #487181

VeeOne
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Nice selection of classic airlines, civilspotter. 🙂

I like the Olympic 747 and the Alitalia Cargo too. And the SPs are great to see.

May 23, 2011 at 1:50 am in reply to: Soviet Jets before the wall came down #487219

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Hi IL62

That would be right, a Saturday, in 1985 my photo says. I flew in a Piper Archer because big airports are my love and I wanted to fly into Stansted before the landing fees went sky high (as London’s 3rd airport).

We parked next to that 154 and I stuck my SLR out the storm window and took the picture. I had to go thru a small door that ran alongside a cafe area to book in and pay £23 landing fee. When I came back to the aeroplane I took these two pics.

Here is the actual Aviogenex 727 that was behind the 154. It looks like you parked the blue van next to that jet too! I guess you were not allowed to take cameras airside? Heathrow at that time was the same but I know some people snuck them in at the risk of their jobs.

And here is the Viscount that took the Balkan 154’s stand after it had pushed back… It is not straight because I used a 200mm zoom lens thru the little pilot’s storm window that the PA-28 has for no clear use. I had been cleared to the hold and was rushing the picture because I didn’t want to get my wrist slapped by ATC for just sitting there.

As I recall when I was short finals I noticed the THY 707 fleet (at least 3) in the cargo/maintenance area on the far side from the pax terminal. That runway was 2 miles long and as I landed on the numbers it was a long taxy to the terminal. Great days. Sometimes I really miss fixed-wing flying.

Hope they bring back memories. 🙂

May 23, 2011 at 1:34 am in reply to: British Jetliners 1 – TRIDENT and VC-10 #487223

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I took this photo at Xiaotangshan Aviation Museum, Beijing, China last November….

Ken

Good to know it is not just westerners who feel these aeroplanes need preserving! This must be a military Trident passed over from CAAC when it was a state carrier? Nice.

May 23, 2011 at 1:20 am in reply to: Retro Airport Scene photos #487227

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Cloud 9

How did I miss that huge building?? Dumb or what?

I was going by memory which is clearly fading on me with time. Oh dear!

I remember that part of the airport when it didn’t have any buildings there but I guess that was the early 1970s when the junction was not a mass or roundabouts and confusion. 🙂

May 23, 2011 at 1:14 am in reply to: British Jetliners 1 – TRIDENT and VC-10 #487231

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Wasnt the offset nosewheel to do with the volume of CAT III landing electronics equipment that was required in the forward nose ?

That would make sense.

May 23, 2011 at 1:07 am in reply to: Curse this wind ! #413437

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Will this cursed wind ever let up ?

Weekend after weekend has been blighted for us ‘fair-weather’ flyers. Gusting 20 knots might just about be do-able for the PA-28 brigade, but for those of us who fly stick-and-cloth machines, it is just not on.

Here on the northern edge of the London TMA, the week-end summer sky is normally throbbing with light aeroplanes, but today, one Chipmunk plodding back from Panshanger, and two red kites going backwards !

Maybe the answer is to get a glider, and go ridge-soaring. :rolleyes:

Several years ago this country was designated a Windy Country. And the winds never drop below 15mph average unless a high comes along and then it is 3mph.

When I learned to fly fixed-wing in the late 1970s there were always lots of days of 8-10kt on the field. Those days are long gone. With low-level wind increase comes rotor turbulence almost exponentially. So even if we do get to fly it can be ugly and unfun. I have been paragliding once in a month at a time when cross-country gliding is good.

I think we have to accept that the weather is changing. If you want to fly a tiger or micro-light watch out when taxying crosswind! 🙁

We need to hope the jetstream moves further north in the coming month. 😉

May 22, 2011 at 1:09 pm in reply to: British Jetliners 1 – TRIDENT and VC-10 #487452

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Yes Sarah, there is indeed a version for the Vanguard, and I’ve actually held one, but it was very, very expensive!. I have genuine BEA ‘travel agent’ type display models from the 60s, namely a 1/72 Trident 1, a 1/72 Vanguard, a 1/50 Comet 4B and a 1/50 Argosy. I would very much like a Vanguard poster to complete the set. I doubt that one was ever done for the Argosy, being purely cargo with BEA.

That would be nice to see. I like the Vanguard. I like the big windows.

I remember those models in travel agents when I was a child. I flew to Le Touquet back in about 1994 and in the booking out office where you have to file a flight plan to cross the channel there was an original display model of a BEA Trident in red square livery, just sitting in a corner gathering dust. I wonder if it is still there?

hmmm. I thought about pinching it as it was obviously so uncared for. But we would have been arrested at Lydd! LOL!

May 22, 2011 at 1:02 pm in reply to: Rare Air India snaps #487458

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They also used leased DC8Fs from various operators and a 747F from Tigers I think. Cargo flights only.

May 22, 2011 at 12:57 pm in reply to: BOEING 747 CLASSIC (PART 1 of 2) #487461

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Fantastic collection, Sarah. Love them all. Have you got a pic of a Qantas 747-sp? I flew on one back in 1997 when I went to Australia, I don’t think they ever operated them into Europe but you never know.

Sorry, Deano. They never used their SPs over this way. Would love to have seen one though. That huge tail and a huge Kangaroo on it!

Sarah

May 22, 2011 at 12:56 pm in reply to: BOEING 747 CLASSIC (PART 1 of 2) #487471

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Wow. I had no idea so many early airliners did that!

May 22, 2011 at 12:54 pm in reply to: BOEING 747 CLASSIC (PART 2 of 2) #487475

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I mean’t that particular picture because I think I’ve seen it before (:

Oppps, sorry. I believe my photos were uploaded by AirNikon at one time about a decade ago but they don’t appear to be on Airliners.net now. 🙂

You’ve got an excellent memory for stuff, Joe!

Sarah

May 21, 2011 at 11:49 pm in reply to: General Discussion #325549

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Can’t blame the creep for manipulating stupid people. They’ve been doing that to stupid people for ever! Religion is the biggest con of all time (not because it is true or it isn’t true but because it allows us to be controlled by Mullas, Popes and such bogus peeps.

The Bible is, after all, a mish-mash of earlier so-called scriptures like the Vedas, the Egyptian writings and the Sumerian tablets and so on. So to expect any wider reality can be ascertained from it is simply stupid.

As Agent Mulder said, “I want to believe”, and most of us do so we open ourselves to these control-freaks and their nonsense. Conning people is as old as prostitution and a good way to get rich. 😉

May 21, 2011 at 11:49 pm in reply to: So, The End Of The World Starts Today! #1863240

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Can’t blame the creep for manipulating stupid people. They’ve been doing that to stupid people for ever! Religion is the biggest con of all time (not because it is true or it isn’t true but because it allows us to be controlled by Mullas, Popes and such bogus peeps.

The Bible is, after all, a mish-mash of earlier so-called scriptures like the Vedas, the Egyptian writings and the Sumerian tablets and so on. So to expect any wider reality can be ascertained from it is simply stupid.

As Agent Mulder said, “I want to believe”, and most of us do so we open ourselves to these control-freaks and their nonsense. Conning people is as old as prostitution and a good way to get rich. 😉

May 21, 2011 at 11:40 pm in reply to: Potential summer strikes…but not at BA! #480026

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And if flight / cabin crews don’t strike no doubt the French ATC will. Someone has to mess up the summer system. We can’t have Icelandic volcanoes every year!

May 21, 2011 at 11:38 pm in reply to: Aurigny Trislanders #480029

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I think Aurigny should operate C-47s and if that won’t do the trick then how about putting Dragon Rapides back on the routes. They can operate from Jersey’s flat beaches or flat fields.

But seriously, surely turbine is the only way forward for them?
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